How to Make a Gift Basket

Gift Baskets are an ideal gift for nearly any occasion. Gift baskets provide a convenient way to find a gift for practically any occasion, but they also provide an avenue for creative and personalized gift giving. Making gift baskets is fun and easy, and homemade gift baskets generally prove to be superior, personalized gifts to their pre packaged counterparts.

Finding a perfect gift is usually a challenge that goes far beyond understanding someone's interests and hobbies. One of the biggest problems with gift giving is the lack of true "tweener" products that cost in the reasonable $30-$60 range. For every hobby there are lots of little items that are needed on a continuing basis, and there are lots of bigger items that are expensive and/or very personalized equipment choices. Small items like golf balls and tees are not sizeable enough to represent a real gift, but a set of golf shoes or clubs is too expensive and individual to make a good gift. Gift baskets make it easy to find an assortment of smaller products and put them together for a personalized gift basket.

As a starting point, you should try to think of a quality, themed container to build the gift basket around. For example, a bucket makes a perfect container for a car wash gift basket. Absent a container that matches the theme, you will be forced to buy, find or make some other kind of container. Wicker baskets are popular, but really any container will do if it is dressed up properly.

Generally, gift baskets are put together with shredded paper. You can buy this paper at stores where crafts are sold, and cut it with scissors. This paper can also be used to cover the container if you are forced to use something like a shoe box. You could use newspaper, depending on the type of gift basket you are making, but colored paper is something you should plan on getting.

A great way to wrap the gift basket up is with tulle netting. This can be purchased at hobby stores or through many Internet locations cheaply. Place the gift basket in the center of a large piece of tulle netting, wrap all the content inside the netting, and tie it off with a ribbon.

If presentation is your top priority, some of the commercially available gift baskets will be hard to beat. But with work, a homemade gift basket can look even better than purchased gift baskets. But the real value in personalizing a gift basket is the thought that goes into the individual items of the gift. That's the thought that is remembered, and endearing to the person you are giving to.

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